By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil’s Presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula is set to win in the crucial elections on October 30. Just seventy-two hours before the elections, the opinion polls give Lula a handsome margin of six to seven percent as against the incumbent...
By Ashis Biswas With the Assam Government sealing the newly opened museum devoted to ‘Miya culture’ within hours of its opening in Goalpara district, clearly the targeted marginalisation of Bengali speaking Muslim settlers is set to intensify further. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma personally spearheads the offensive, describing...
By Tirthankar Mitra Inclusion of yesteryear Bollywood super star, Mithun Chakraborty in BJP’s core committee for West Bengal appears to be a political gamble by saffron camp leaders to stop Trinamool Congress juggernaut in the panchayat polls next year. In the backdrop of a faction riven party structure which...
By G. S. Bajpai and Neha Kapur Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, which shook the world, changes in employment patterns have become apparent. Flourishing sectors with dynamic work environments suffered jerks and trembled with fewer jobs, high prices and minimal demand. In the wake of the...
By Subrata Majumder, Oil is the second biggest energy for India. It accounts for 29 percent of total energy in the country. Although coal is the biggest energy, oil is more sensitive to inflation as it impacts directly on the common people. Nearly 65 percent of oil is used...
By K Raveendran We haven’t had any ‘pearls of wisdom’ from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman for quite some time. But her latest one on rupee that the Indian currency’s problems are basically because the dollar is strengthening rather than the rupee weakening makes up for the longer than normal...
By Sushil Kutty To think that the Congress-led UPA was ruling India till just eight years ago is unbelievable. Looks like eight years were a lifetime for the Congress. An exodus of sorts has emptied the Congress of known faces. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi had to reestablish the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal has increasingly been becoming blind to the communal politics in India since 2014 when he could see the evils of both corruption and communalism, but now he does not see any of those quagmires. Many AAP leaders are...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A former hedge fund manager, Rishi Sunak is a big crypto bull. He wants the UK to become the crypto hub of the world. He is of Indian origin and most Indians are happy at Sunak becoming the Prime Minister of a country that ruled...
By Dr Arun Mitra Democracy is a means to decide how we want to be governed. To woo the voters political parties therefore decide their agenda which they feel will fetch them votes to reach the seat of power. They give populist slogans, whether they can fulfill them or...